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Brian_Gupta_115
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Feb 03, 2008

Ruby on Rails with Mongrels behind a BigIP.

One issue I see is that Ruby on Rails is a single threaded application. Meaning that if I want to scale my traffic/connection handling capabilities, I need to run multiple Mongrel webservers running o...
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Brian_Gupta_115
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Feb 04, 2008
My only concern is that if we were to use node it wouldn't also try to do least connections for the individual members on each node. IE: Once we have sent one connection to each node, the next connection should go to a member that doesn't have a connection. IE: If there are two connections being sent to a node, they should be on different members.

 

 

I would expect this to be the behaviour, but it is hard to know for certain without testing.

 

 

Any thoughts?